AbbeySomeone:Whoever is in charge of drug busts needs to raid every ghetto mart in the nation that carries this sh*t, immediately. Leave the pot smokers alone and concentrate on this and the meth people.

Abbey, it's legal. 100 percent.

First lawmakers need to get up ons. But the problem isn't the chemical. It's the "war on drugs" we're waging. If shrooms, acid, and pot were legal no one would be going to head shops to find synthetic chemicals that haven't been illegalized yet. Hell, if we legalize EVERYTHING, no one would use PCP or meth. Too many safer highs.

Is this really some epidemic or is the media pushing this? Cause I never heard of the stuff before the face eating incident. Granted I let my subscription to "Illicit Drugs Digest" run out so I'm not very informed.

Following the Tuesday night incident, Munnsville mom Pamela McCarthy later died at a hospital after going into cardiac arrest from the effects of the Tasing, reported ABC affiliate WSYR-TV in Syracuse.

Oh yeah, the bath salt bender had nothing to do with the cardiac arrest, it was all the taser.

Mugato:Is this really some epidemic or is the media pushing this? Cause I never heard of the stuff before the face eating incident. Granted I let my subscription to "Illicit Drugs Digest" run out so I'm not very informed.

A little of both, I suspect. This shiat is really, reall bad, but these days cops are blaming every whacked out drug incident on TEH BATH SALTS without even waiting for tox screen results.

doglover:AbbeySomeone: Whoever is in charge of drug busts needs to raid every ghetto mart in the nation that carries this sh*t, immediately. Leave the pot smokers alone and concentrate on this and the meth people.

Normally I get pissed off after somebody dies post-tasering, but this time, it was probably for the best (and, as was mentioned upthread, probably had fark all do to with the taser). Might want to make sure that she doesn't rise from the dead, though.

doglover:AbbeySomeone: Whoever is in charge of drug busts needs to raid every ghetto mart in the nation that carries this sh*t, immediately. Leave the pot smokers alone and concentrate on this and the meth people.

Abbey, it's legal. 100 percent.

First lawmakers need to get up ons. But the problem isn't the chemical. It's the "war on drugs" we're waging. If shrooms, acid, and pot were legal no one would be going to head shops to find synthetic chemicals that haven't been illegalized yet. Hell, if we legalize EVERYTHING, no one would use PCP or meth. Too many safer highs.

Until the safe highs, in safe dosages, stop doing the trick. Most of my druggie friends gave it up at that point and figure it isn't meant to be. A couple decided "safe" was a secondary concern vs. "high."

The less said about that, the better. But afaik none of them have eaten a face yet.

Mugato:Is this really some epidemic or is the media pushing this? Cause I never heard of the stuff before the face eating incident. Granted I let my subscription to "Illicit Drugs Digest" run out so I'm not very informed.

I'm going with media scare campaign, as there was no evidence of bath salt use mentioned anywhere in the article, but they kept bringing them up. Then they laundry list the other "bath salt attacks" while pointing out that they were only "potentially" involving bath salts.

Mugato:Is this really some epidemic or is the media pushing this? Cause I never heard of the stuff before the face eating incident. Granted I let my subscription to "Illicit Drugs Digest" run out so I'm not very informed.

Maybe it is a secret Obama psyop to demonize harder drugs so that when he announces a pro-pot initiative as his October surprise we will be conditioned to think, "well, it certainly isn't as bad as those BATH SALTS".

/I can daydream//there do seem to be an inordinate amount of bath salt stories

HotWingConspiracy:Mugato: Is this really some epidemic or is the media pushing this? Cause I never heard of the stuff before the face eating incident. Granted I let my subscription to "Illicit Drugs Digest" run out so I'm not very informed.

I'm going with media scare campaign, as there was no evidence of bath salt use mentioned anywhere in the article, but they kept bringing them up. Then they laundry list the other "bath salt attacks" while pointing out that they were only "potentially" involving bath salts.

Half truth, half scare, like usual.

Synthetics and how bad a high they are for the desperate has been common knowledge for a while.

Everybody from the Viet Cong to the "My Daddy Ate My Eyes" guy have been combining mind-altering drugs with stimulants for decades, if not centuries, and doing horrifying damage to themselves or others as a result.

I'm an downstater who starts thinking "upstate" somewhere around the Harriman exit off the Thruway, so maybe you need to take this with a grain of salt. But if there's anyone out there who's going to argue that Syracuse isn't upstate, that's just ridiculous.

AbbeySomeone:Whoever is in charge of drug busts needs to raid every ghetto mart in the nation that carries this sh*t, immediately. Leave the pot smokers alone and concentrate on this and the meth people.

Jesus Christ in a chicken basket, THIS.

My dad was an MP in the Army during 'Nam and he told me one day he would gladly deal with potheads. Most of the time he'd just tell them to knock it off and leave them alone. The PCP guys, not so much.

Actually he said the drunks were way worse than potheads for starting shiat.

All this talk about bath salts is making me think that maybe I should try some.

I ain't got shiat to do today. Okay, I'll probably avoid the bath salts and just get blind stinking drunk instead, but I really don't think I'd do anything crazy on bath salts - some people are just nuts to begin with.

basemetal:Following the Tuesday night incident, Munnsville mom Pamela McCarthy later died at a hospital after going into cardiac arrest from the effects of the Tasing, reported ABC affiliate WSYR-TV in Syracuse.

Oh yeah, the bath salt bender had nothing to do with the cardiac arrest, it was all the taser.